The official Cannes Film Festival started today and “On The Road” producer Charlies Gillibert has said that the film will have its Cannes premiere on wednesday May 23rd.
Cast confirmed to attend are Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortensen, Danny Morgan & Tom Sturridge.
Kristen Stewart’s new film On The Road is to have its UK premiere opening the Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House 2012.
The Twilight actress stars in the highly-anticipated big screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel from Brazilian director Walter Salles, which will launch the new season of the open air cinema on Thursday August 16.
Ben Stiller’s new comedy The Watch, co-starring Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade, will also premiere as part of the Summer Screen on Sunday August 19, ahead of its release on August 29.
The comedy sees a group of suburban fathers form a Neighbourhood Watch scheme with a difference to protect their families.
The open-air film season at London’s Somerset House will close on Monday August 27, with the UK premiere of Lawless, John Hillcoat’s new film about prohibition bootlegging, starring Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Shia LaBeouf, Gary Oldman, Jessica Chastain and Mia Wasikowska.
Other films to be shown as part of the event include the first showing of the new digitally restored version of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, with an introduction from glamorous Hitchcock blonde Tippi Hedren.
There will also be a double billing of Ray Winstone’s Sexy Beast and Ryan Gosling’s Drive, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom.
- Press Association
Posted by Jess on May 12, 2012
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A week before it premieres in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, On The Road has been acquired by AMC Networks. Picking up all U.S. rights to Walter Sallies’ adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s Beat Generation classic, AMC Networks announced that its distribution labels IFC Films and Sundance Selects will release the film later this fall.
IFC Films and Sundance Selects to Distribute On the Road
AMC Networks has just announced the acquisition of all US rights to acclaimed filmmaker Walter Salles’ On the Road, to be released jointly by the company’s film distribution labels IFC Films and Sundance Selects.
Based on the iconic novel by Jack Kerouac, the film stars Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart and Kirsten Dunst and features performances by Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge, Danny Morgan, Alice Braga, Elisabeth Moss and Viggo Mortensen. The screenplay is by Jose Rivera (Academy Award nominee for The Motorcycle Diaries).
The World Premiere for On the Road is set for the upcoming Cannes Film Festival in the Competition Section. A major theatrical release is planned for late fall.
On the Road tells the provocative story of Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund), a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner, and his girl, Marylou (Kristen Stewart). Together, Sal and Dean travel cross-country in a quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them, in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of “it” — the pure essence of experience.
Well, as expected, On The Road was announced today as one of the movies to be ‘in competition’ at Cannes festival. The festival will take place from May 16 to May 27, 2012 and we’re expecting Kirsten to attend it.
In Competition:
“Amour” (dir. Michael Haneke)
“The Angel’s Share” (dir. Ken Loach)
“Baad EL Mawkeaa (Apres La Bataille”) (dir. Yousry Nasrallah)
“Beyond The Hills” (dir. Cristian Mungiu)
“Cosmopolis” (dir. David Cronenberg)
“Holy Motors” (dir. Leos Carax)
“The Hunt” (dir. Thomas Vinterberg)
“In Another Country” (dir. Hong Sang-Soo)
“Im Nebels (Dans La Brume)” (dir. Sergei Loznitsa)
“Killing Them Softly” (dir. Andrew Dominik)
“Lawless” (dir. John Hillcoat)
“Like Someone In Love” (dir. Abbas Kiarostami)
“Moonrise Kingdom” (dir. Wes Anderson)
“Mud” (dir. Jeff Nichols) “On The Road” (dir. Walter Salles)
“Paradies: Liebe” (dir. Ulrich Seidl)
“The Paperboy” (dir. Lee Daniels)
“Post Tenebras Lux” (dir. Carlos Reygadas)
“Reality” (dir. Matteo Garrone)
“Rust & Bone” (dir. Jacques Audiard)
“Taste Of Money” (dir. Im Sang-Soo)
“Vous N’Avez Encoure Rien Vu” (dir. Alain Resnais)
The official On the Road website was launched today! There’s no much up, but you can find a Kiki page under the cast session, also some pictures – mostly we have seen already.
Paper on the screen: the Who’s Who of occasional “on the road” section featuring Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley, Kirsten Dunst. They will be publishing a 196-page special issue devoted to On the Road.
The film’s official Facebook page has debuted the first trailer for On The Road, directed by Walter Salles, and starring Sam Riley as Sal Paradise, Garrett Hedlund as Dean Moriarty and also Kristen Stewart with supporting roles for Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortensen, Amy Adams, Alice Braga, Steve Buscemi, Terrence Howard, Elizabeth Moss and Tom Sturridge.
After more than thirty years in development, a big screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s iconic “On the Road” is finally headed to theaters this year. British up and comer Sam Riley plays Sal Paradise, Jack Kerouac’s semi-autobiographical portrait of a Beat Generation writer who goes on a journey of booze, drugs and self-discovery with his best friend, Dean Moriarty, played by Garrett Hedlund and based on real life Beat icon Neal Cassady. Kristen Stewart joins them for part of the journey as Dean’s wife Marylou, and others including Viggo Mortensen, Amy Adams, Kirsten Dunst, Tom Sturridge and more meander in and out of the path of the two friends.
The Walter Salles directed film has been receiving very positive early buzz and is expected to bow at the Cannes Film Festival this May, with a France release date to match, while we’re betting a date that’s a little more Oscar-friendly is being eyed for its US release. See the poster in larger size in our gallery.
Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen are joining Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart and Kirsten Dunst in the Walter Salles-directed On the Road, says Deadline New York.
The Jose Rivera-scripted film is an adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel, which chronicles Kerouac’s years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, “a sideburned hero of the snowy West.” As “Sal Paradise” and “Dean Moriarty,” the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience.
Adams will play Jane, “the emotionally damaged junkie mother of two children and the wife of Old Bull Lee.” Mortensen is going to play Lee.
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After more than thirty years in development, a big screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s iconic “On the Road” is finally headed to theaters this year. British up and comer Sam Riley plays Sal Paradise, Jack Kerouac’s semi-autobiographical portrait of a Beat Generation writer who goes on a journey of booze, drugs and self-discovery with his best friend, Dean Moriarty, played by Garrett Hedlund and based on real life Beat icon Neal Cassady. Kristen Stewart joins them for part of the journey as Dean’s wife Marylou, and others including Viggo Mortensen, Amy Adams, Kirsten Dunst, Tom Sturridge and more meander in and out of the path of the two friends.